selected ufo cases

Disc / Saucer Shape

November, 21, 2003 - Bennett Lake, Michigan, United States

In the early morning hours of 21 November, 2003, Robert Williams and his mother Christine Williams, observed an extremely bright light hovering over Bennett Lake at an altitude of about 50-60 feet. As the object approached to within 250-300 yards of the witnesses, the intense white light began to dim, and both witnesses were able to make out a defined structure. They agreed that the object had a definite "frisbee" shape, and was complete with individual white lights around the perimeter.
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Source: MUFON (2004)
ID: 919

August, 11, 2003 - Szczecinek, Poland

An account of a close encounter of the third kind comes to us from Poland. The incident occurred on August 11, 2003. Lech Chacinski was driving down the road in the early morning hours, about 5:00 A M, when he saw three figures standing on the shoulder of the road. They wore uniforms similar to that of an astronaut
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Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research (hbccufo.org), 4-26-04
ID: 1050

July, 26, 2003 - Brzostek, Poland

The unidentified object was first noticed as it flew above the city of Skurowa at an extremely high altitude. Then it changed course and flew over a market. The initial photos were taken while the witness was in his garden.
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Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo

2003 - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

A clear, close-range video of a saucer-shaped object spinning near a building in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria sometime in 2003. According to B. J. Booth, who eventually acquired and made public the video, it was taken by a woman, who made it available to local authorities in Bulgaria, who confiscated it from her. Luckily she had made a copy of it and placed it in the care of a friend.
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Source: B. J. Booth, UFO Casebook
ID: 1027

Case Type: SummaryReport
Features:
Photo, Rotary/Spin Motion, Silent

November, 2002 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

From the witness: "It was a metal saucer shape with about 5 legs with these large metal balls under the legs but not attached to the legs. These balls were idle spinning very fast. It was almost like the spinning balls were keeping the UFO in mid air with the force. Then the balls started moving in a counter clockwise direction (still spinning) underneath the object in a circle."
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Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org)
ID: 1072

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Multiple UFOs

February, 2, 2002 - Orsay, France

On February 2, 2002 around 7 p.m. 40, a family in the car observes a mass illuminated in the shape of saucer. This mass is of gray color with white luminous lights on its periphery. The phenomenon is stationary above the trees with a diameter estimated by the witnesses at about fifteen meters. No noise is perceived during the observation which was stopped because of the profile of the road. No explanation could be brought to this phenomenon.
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Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program)
ID: 1123

2002 - Oregon, United States

The witness described a "really large, plate like, fluorescent lit airborne craft" floated silently and slowly to the right, revealing itself for its size and brilliance as it continued to drift into view. The 100 foot wide glowing craft tilted slightly and came to a stop just beyond the trees some 60 feet away and 50 feet up.
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Source: Eric Byler. Oregon UFO Review, 2002
ID: 1015

Case Type: StandardCase

September, 29, 2001 - Budapest, Hungary

"A military pilot recorded a spectacular video of a silver disk object on September 29, 2001. The craft was flying to his left side and then moved very fast past him in the clouds as can be seen in the video."
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Source: Kal Korff / Rense.com
ID: 404

Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo, Military, Pilot/Aircrew

April, 22, 2000 - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Three brothers were playing soccer with two friends at Cloverdale School, when one looked up in the clear sky and noticed a disk-shaped object that was silently moving in an easterly direction. The black or dark blue disk had white domes on top and bottom. It
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Source: Gord Heath, UFO*BC
ID: 346

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Children

March, 30, 2000 - Little Fox Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada

Witnesses saw a 30 to 40ft diameter saucer, hovering about 200 ft off the ground! . It was a classic disc shape with a dome on top. The dome had two curved windows or lights from which a blue light was shining. The car headlights dimmed and their tape deck stopped playing. Their watches stopped functioning.
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Source: Martin Jasek
ID: 115

February, 25, 1999 - Cascade Mountains, Near Mt. St. Helens, Washington, United States

A team of forestry workers allegedly had been witness to an incident on Thursday, February 25, 1999, during which time an elk was lifted off the ground and carried away by a very peculiar, disc-shaped object.
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Source: National UFO Reporting Center
ID: 14

October, 19, 1998 - Changzhou, China

The [Chinese] air force had a prolonged up-close encounter with a UFO last month that one fighter pilot described as "just like ones in foreign movies," a government-controlled newspaper reported Thursday. At least 140 people on the ground also saw the object. They described an object with a mushroom-shaped dome on top and a flat bottom covered with bright, continually rotating lights.
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Source: AFP (Agence France Presse) - November, 1998
ID: 1074

August, 6, 1997 - Mexico City, Mexico

In September 1997, [Mexican TV host and UFO researcher] Jaime Maussan received a very special package. Someone had sent him a video tape, in itself nothing remarkable. But when he played the tape on his video recorder, it took his breath away. For the anonymously sent recording showed nothing but points of light and sky - except for a large, metallic, structured, rotating disk, which maneuvered in broad daylight over Mexico City, with a dateline of 6 August 1997.
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Source: Michael Hesemann (2000)
ID: 864

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo

June, 1997 - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada

The witness "went outdoors for a look and there out over her septic field about 50 meters away this object hovering just a meter or two above the ground. It was a pale, pale green, almost white and had a bright glow to it. It was about the diameter of a frisbee and about 10 centimetres (4 inches) thick. When it flew by her deck, she estimated it to be travelling slightly slower than a thrown frisbee. She continued to watch the object for about 20 minutes just hovering back and forth."
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Source: Martin Jasek
ID: 1010

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Animal Reaction

September, 12, 1996 - Pont de Salars, France

On September 12, 1996 around 8 p.m., a mother and her daughter in their car observe an object made up of an ovoid [oval-shaped] skirt [?] and a surmounted cylinder on a dome with three lights (port-holes?) sharp red. On the cylinder, a fluorescent green light turned like a gyrophare [?]. The object, silent, was suspended 4 meters off the ground and approximately ten meters from the road. Its size is estimated as two cars [size] approximately. The object disappeared at the end of a few minutes. The phenomenon observed was not explained.
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Source: GEIPAN (French government UFO program)
ID: 1120

September, 29, 1995 - Vejle, Jutland, Denmark

A 24-year-old man was driving to visit his parents in Vejle in Jutland, Denmark, when he experienced a dramatic stopping of his car when a disc-shaped UFO with a powerful light hovered over his vehicle. The object was only 3-4 meters above the car, and he could see a number of circular lamps on the underside. After a short time the intensity of the light from the UFO diminished, and it slowly moved away and out of sight; he was able to start the car again normally.
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Source: Kim Moller Hansen, in Evans and Stacey (1997)
ID: 733

July, 15, 1995 - Harwinton, Connecticut, United States

The witnesses (husband and wife) were driving back from fishing at a quarry in Harwinton when they observed a large metallic disk about 500 feet in diameter at an altitude of about 200 feet, from a distance of about a half mile, during daytime. The object was traveling 65-70 mph, and it passed smoothly over the road on a course approximately perpendicular to the road.
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Source: MUFON Connecticut / Mark Cashman, TemporalDoorway.com
ID: 785

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Witness Sketch, Silent

March, 30, 1995 - Transvaal, South Africa

When a local farmer from Groot Marico in the western Transvaal plains region first observed the saucer-shaped object on Thursday morning, he noticed that it had a distinctly visible hole in its hull. The farmer, Mr. Jan Pienaar (45), is of the opinion that this "vehicle" landed on a remote country road between Coligny and Brakspruit to have its damaged hull repaired. However, his arrival probably prompted the "vehicle's" hasty retreat and rapid ascent into the sky.
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August, 16, 1994 - Pentacost River, Australia

"They came in quite low and then just stopped and hovered about 200 yards to my left, ovoid in shape (typical saucer shaped) with first red and then green lights travelling horizontally around the middle of the saucer. They were still there at 10.30pm that night, at one stage I felt I could almost touch them. They were completly silent and did nothing at all until they left that night."
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Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia
ID: 619

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Witness Sketch, Multiple UFOs

May, 21, 1994 - Plauen, Germany

The witness 'spotted a big luminous object approximately 100 meters away, hovering at an altitude of about 30 meters just above the building. It looked to her like two frisbees stuck together, turning in opposite directions. The bottom part had small, dark squares that looked like windows under which a circle of white lights rotated in a clockwise direction. The object appeared to be about 10 meters in diameter.'
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Source: Illobrand von Ludwiger - MUFON-CES
ID: 435

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Portholes/Windows

May, 6, 1994 - Guarantingueta, Brazil

I could see the shape of the object and it was the familiar "flying saucer" dome shaped object. I walked two hundred feet on the side of the road towards the object which was hovering low, no sound came from it... The object was quite large and I estimated it to be at least 70 feet in diameter and about 30 feet high. It was just hovering in the air at about 120-150 feet high."
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Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org)
ID: 1115

January, 28, 1994 - Paris, France

While flying over the Paris region, the crew noticed a large brown-red disk hovering on the horizon and constantly changing shape. From the pilot: "This object seemed to us then absolutely abnormal by its size which seemed immense, its dark red color and of the fuzzy edges. I had the impression to observe a gigantic lens in evolution. It did not resemble anything we had seen in our flying careers. "
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Source: UFOCOM (Credit: Ufologie.net - Patrick Gross)
ID: 1062

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Photo

March, 10, 1993 - Maslin Beach, Australia

When Eric Thomason in Maslin Beach, Australia, looked out across the ocean, he saw - to his great surprise - how an object rose from the waves and started flying towards him. When the object came nearer, Eric took out his camera and started taking photographs.
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Source: Claus Svahn, UFO Sweden
ID: 1045

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Water-Related

March, 9, 1993 - Braunschweig , Germany

"Through the bedroom window, we saw a bright round shining object stationary at a height of some 10 metres or so above the birch trees to the east... it was now immediately quite clear to me that I was looking at an unknown flying object... we could see its shape absolutely clearly."
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